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Title: [Australia]: Transgender people most likely abused
Post by: Natasha on May 04, 2011, 05:42:00 PM
[Australia]:  Transgender people most likely abused

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/transgender-people-most-likely-abused-20110504-1e8jr.html (http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/transgender-people-most-likely-abused-20110504-1e8jr.html)
5/5/11
Adele Horin

THE Human Rights Commissioner, Catherine Branson, has called on the federal government to introduce federal laws to protect people from discrimination on the grounds of their sexual orientation or gender identity.

''The commission's consultation revealed numerous and distressing stories of how people's lives had been impacted and damaged by discrimination, violence or bullying on the basis of their sexual orientation and gender identity,'' she said.